Hi Derek,
> ls -1 /path/to/spool | while read file; do
> outfile_name = "${file}.out"
> #You can use -e but you don't need it, no difference
> sed -n '/^From: $EMAIL_ADDRESS/p ; /Subject: $SUBJECT/p' \
> "$file" > $outfile_name
> done
I can confirm that this script part works; before integrating it into the
rest of my script I tested it separately. The only thing I had to change
was to delete whitespaces before and after = in the variable assignment
in the second line to get the variable assigned correctly.
The first run of the script with /path/to/spool as path/to/INBOX did not
work producing the output: ambiguous redirection I spoke of in a
previous message, and placing the mostly blank output files into the
$HOME folder. Putting it like so, /path/to/INBOX/cur/* did work so
that those sed output files were then placed into this very directory.
Fiddling with it a bit more, I did not pay attention, first cleaning up
sed's output files (deliberately) and now all remaining original messages
are still there
but the index view (the usual one that appears after typing 'mutt'
on the command line and presents all messages) now presents all messages
with a default 01 January date, no FROM, no SUBJECT but retaining all
flags previously set, with an [OK] flag added to the extreme right.
So, I supposed, the format code syntax of the
printf-like formatting sequences was corrupted and tried to restablish
it by copying the default sequence taken out of the configuration
variable reference of the mutt manual into muttrc, but it does not work.
The problem seems to be that those messages are no longer represented
correctly but still bear that information in the message files, so the
function that makes the message data be represented in/by the index
(technically, it may not be correct to put it like that, but that's
what it appears to be) does not work properly. But resetting the
index_format variable, as I said, did not bring the expected result.
Well, finally, I had to reconstruct your message in order to reply to
you maintaing the threading; I hope it works.
Thanks
felixs
